this is al jazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler outrage around the world. >> some of our country men who were tortured were totally innocent the torture report, the c.i.a. and the calls for prosecution. justice deferred. [ chanting ] the deaths of michael brown and eric garner - will the officers involved face federal charges? >> the officers should have immediately taken steps to help

them grieve uber crackdown, american cities try to shut down the car service as other country's ban it entirely. and a picture's worth - the most expensive photograph ever sold, but is it art? tonight there are calls from around the world for accountability after the senate report on torture by the c.i.a. new details, outrage and support for the agency and tactics used on terror suspect. libby casey reports. >> waterboarding, sleep deprivation, starvation, tactics used by the c.i.a. on detainees in the post 9/11. human rights say it's torture and illegal. today the white house said that's not the president's call. >> that's not a question for the president of the united states. it's not the president of the united states who conducts a criminal inquiry, and to the actions of somebody who works at the c.i.a., that's the responsibility of a career

federal prosecutor who can take an independent look at this, without political interference, and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. >> reporter: but there were calls on the senate into from democrats for action. >> it's bad enough not to prosecute these officials. but to reward or promote them, and risk the integrity of the u.s. government to protect them is incomprehensible. the president needs to purge his administration of high-level officials who are instrumental in the development and running of this programme. >> reporter: the justice department has looked into the allegation of prisoner abuse and chose not to prosecute. in 2012 it ended an investigation into interrogation measures and the death of two detainees. and president obama outlawed the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques early in his

presidency and move forward. >> there was never a perfect time to release a report like this, but it was important for us to recognise that part of what sets us apart is when we do something wrong we acknowledge it. >> reporter: critics want someone to be held accountable and united nations officials say those that authorised torture should be prosecuted. the special investigator on counterterrorism and human rights released a statement saying: the u.s. does not belong the international criminal court which steps in when countries will not prosecute heinous crimes, and referral to it would need approval from the u.n. security council, where the u.s. has veto power. it's not just the past actions of the c.i.a. under security. senator mark utal, from the

committee that we heard from is calling for the current c.i.a. director to resign, saying john brennan, and the c.i.a., are continuing to mislead the american public, he says they are lying. >> james waulsey was c.i.a. director under president clinton and says that the senate report was not balanced. >> they interviewed and dealt with no one who had had been - such as these three directors of central intelligence, who reason responsible for making the decisions about the programme and correcting some of the early mistakes that were made. they didn't talk to a soul. they took thousands of pages of text and edited it in whatever way they wanted to, and you can make it say most anything with those kinds of numbers. and then they call that the report. i think this is just about as destorted a job as i've seen

come out of capitol hill in some 35-40 years. according to the report the c.i.a. hired two psychologists to develop interrogation technics. roxana saberi talked to a man believed to be an architect of the programme. >> reporter: the senate report recoveries to two psychologists who helped the c.i.a. initiate a programme of detention and brutal interrogation. they devised the enhanced interrogation techniques on suspect, including nudity, waterboarding and slamming detainees into wall. it two contractors. their real names are reported as james mitchell and bruce jessen, both military psychologists. in a phone interview mitchell criticizes senate staffers who prepared the report saying:

in our conversation he refused to confirm he was one of the architects saying: in a rare on-camera interview with vice news he talks about the benefits of water boarding, for example on one of detainees. >> reporter: does water boarding constitution extortion. >> it's like everything in the tool bag, you can understand or over use it. the report says the chief integrator threatened to quit. but the two psychologists insisted that more information

was to be had. they oversaw and conducted the interrogations using the techniques they devised. >> mitchell said he had experience in training integrators and told us: the senate report says the two psychologists started a company that took over the c.i.a. programme from 2008 to 2009 and the c.i.a. paid them $81 million. >> former vice president dick cheney objected to the methods, saying they were both legal and effective. >> torture was something we carefully avoided. one of the reasons we went to the justice department on the programme was because we wanted them to tell everyone where is the clin legally between what is acceptable and what isn't. that's what came forth in the legal opinion for proceeding with the programme. this is in terms of there being

problems in the programme. there may well have been. i don't think they recommend - the senate report represents the truth of what actually happened. >> afghanistan's new president said he is shocked by the report, some of the worst incidents happening outside bag ral airfield. ashraf ghani is preparing to investigate the actions at the center, and stressed in 2015 the u.s. will no longer have rights to hold detainees in afghanistan supporters of the c.i.a. have been out in force defending its methods. this is not the first time the agency has been under fire. tom ackerman has that story. >> troughifies on display -- trough fizz on display highlight some of the its that they have.

>> are you willing to make a world of difference. be a part of the c.i.a. . >> president harry truman created the c.i.a. in 1947 to act as his intelligence gathering service, but failed to predict the soviets would build a soviet bomb, and miss north korea's invasion of the south. the agency recovered by developing the first spy satellites. as the cold war grew, it acquired new roles, including the overthrow of elected governments in guantanamo and iran. >> i would report that we helped them return to power in 1953. iran received about 25 years of reasonably good leadership. >> the agency spectacularly failed in covert operations like the attempted 1961 invasion of cuba. that and a number of tries to kill fidel castro among other

leaders led to a nuclear missile showdown with the soviet union. the c.i.a. ex-bangs drew critics, like the late senator and u.n. ambassador patrick moynahan. >> intelligence has taken five times the budget of the state department. what it mostly does is pass around misinformation. >> reporter: misinformation like saddam hussein having weapons of mass destruction. >> we believed and understood the story. history, all these things factored into how honest when and women did the work. >> reporter: whatever the admitted failures, many successors must be secret. if the conduct warrants condemnation, so do the presidents it takes orders from and a little later in the hour, we'll look at the cost of

the c.i.a. interrogation programme. that's at 11:30 eastern, 8:30 pacific. a u.n. envoy is calling for an investigation into the death of a well-known palestinian cabinet member, dying on the west bank after a confrontation with israeli sources. >> reporter: from the beginning the protest was personal. >> palestinians demonstrating against land confiscated by israel. israeli police firing tear gas to protect an outpost. and in the middle a palestinian minister. eyewitnesss say an israeli police officer struck him in the chest and put hands around his neck. minutes later he was out of breath. >> translation: they attacked u

us. >> reporter: a soldier tells another man to go away. >> translation: this is the army of occupation. they are stopping complains acting. they attacked us without anyone throwing a stone or attacking them. this is a terrorist occupying an army. >> immediately after the interview he begins to feel paint. he lays down and clutches his chest. he begins to lose consciousness. palestinians call for help. an israeli medic calls for aid. >> translation: who did this, you did this, now you try to save him. >> reporter: the palestinians want to get them to a hospital. first aid stops. he's carried to an ambulance, placed on a gurney, he never regains consciousness. by the time his family arrived at the hospital, he was dead. tonight his sister told me he

died a martyr. >> translation: in the end he paid with his life. the defense minister released a statement saying: some officials want the coordination to end, and president mahmoud abbas called the death a murder. >> what happened today is nothing but a crime. it is a crime by all measures. to which we can not remain silent. >> reporter: he was a popular political figure because he personally led protests. in 1980 he was sentenced to life in prison over the killing of two israeli, he was released in a prisoner swap and became a

minister in september. tonight his family mourned a man fighting for his country. >> translation: he fought for the freedom of palestine and our rights. >> reporter: this was a minister who died in the clash, and it was supposed to be a peaceful protest. the funeral is scheduled for 4:00am eastern that will take place in rom articlea in the president's house, and will be attended by thousands of people. surely that will increase tensions nick schifrin reporting. in hong kong the barricades are falling, along with the hops of pro-democracy demonstrators. protesters occupy a highway in the city. these are live pictures from hong kong. within the last couple of hours hong kong authorities broke out the box cutters, the pliers to break up the encampment and are beginning to take it down now to the west coast of the

united states preparing for a powerful winter storm, heavy snow, pounding surf. heavy winds. meteorologist kevin corriveau is here with more on that. >> we need the rain, but not this way. we are seeing strong winds and heavy rain. we have a lot of flooding with that. i want to take you to washington. take a look at the video. this is the western part of the washington. we are talking about wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour, 24 people out power and in this river overflowing bangs causing problems with flooding in the formland areas there -- farmland areas there. the rain will continue, and towards the south, northern california, it is dealing with the heavy rain. we have the flash flood warnings and watches out. that will stay in place. also looking at these extensive high wind warnings, not only for

california, but up here for nevada as well. we expect to see rain, 8-10 inches of rain, and it will extend to the south. los angeles you'll get the rain there. as we go towards friday, the rain making its way towards the east. arizona, nevada, we'll get snow with the system. we'll watch this carefully. we expect to see mudslides, land slides, like we had before. >> thank you very much. still ahead - politics, police and raids. two separate investigations into officers. what it could take to bring federal charges. and wrong fully gaoled. i'll talk with one of the central park five about justice in america.

today was the so-called day of action. there were protests nationwide in response to grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the kitting of unarmed black me. in new york the group gathering for justice held a rally at the steps of city hall. the group organised city's protests. they made a list of demands calling for the firing of the officer who held eric garner in a choke-hold, and comprehensive retraining for n.y.p.d. officers. across the country medical students and their staff showing support for michael brown and eric garner. several schools held die-ins.

it was organised by the group students for a national health programme. racial bias is a public health issue. attorney general eric holder said the justice department will vet the deaths of eric garner and michael brown, but will the officers involved face federal charges? alawn pinkas reports. -- randall pinkston reports. >> i'm here to announce a federal investigation into eric garner's death. >> reporter: it was the second time in three months attorney general eric holder said the federal government would investigate a police officer in the death of an african american man. the federal justice system dealt with this kind of case before. march 3rd, 1991, after a chase, a video camera caught the police beating up rodney king. the state jury acquitted the police officers of all actions.

this verdict triggered riots in los angeles, and triggered a federal civil rights case resulting in convictions against two of the officers. in new york, former staten island prosecutor jason levinthal said he expects the eric garner case to lead to federal charges. >> what does a federal prosecutor have to do in order to bring charges of civil rights violations. >> well, they have to show that the officer acted wilfully to violate the civil rights. and they'll be free from the use of unusual force. >> the police officer's attorney and union afforce was justified. eric garner was releasing arrest. levinthal disagrees. >> sfoos officer pantalayo wrapped his right arm under mr eric garner said arm, he put his hands up with his palms open to show that he's not fighting,

he's not resisting. the immediate and aggressive jump to a choke hold is what makes this case a federal crime. >> reporter: and what about the police defense that if eric garner could speak, he could breathe. >> he is clearly in respiratory distress, and the officers should have taken steps to help him breathe. they should have sat him up, monitored his breathing and got immediate medical attention to assist him. levinthal said the case against darren wilson, who shot and killed michael brown, may be tougher to prosecute since there is no video and many questions are unanswered. for eric garner's death there is no question. >> with the evidence as song as it is, with that video being what it is, for me it's clear as day that this is unreasonable, unjustifiable force. there may soon be another

multi-million settlement stepping from the wrongful rape conviction back in 1989. the so-called central park five are seeking legal damages in the amount of $52 million from the state of new york. this comes nearly six months after the group won a $41 million settlement from the city of new york. youcef salom is one of the central park five and spent several years in prison before being cleared in 2002. he is with us in the studio tonight. good to see you. thank you for coming back. >> first of all, as part of the initial settlement of $41,000, how much money did you get? >> it isn't enough, after the lawyer fees. >> millions of dollars. >> millions of dollars, but not enough to not work. i have a huge family, child care service and all of that stuff needs to be paid for. i think the folks that benefit

the most from of the settlement will be our children. one of the things that is unfortunate, too, is that the settlement did not address the suffering and the pain that our parents or siblings went through. >> talk about that, and talk about how all of this changed your life. >> this was, from the beginning, one of the most unimaginable nightmares that anybody could ever think they can go through, you know. and this wasn't really a case where we were supposed to just go to gaol and come home from prison after some years. this was a social debt. we weren't supposed to survive prison and we weren't supposed to survive - after we came home from prison - inside society. the fact that we were act come home and not necessarily bounce back, but eventually we begin to find our way. >> for those of us that remember the 1989 case, it was a huge deal in new york and around the

country. the five people accused of this crime were on the front page of every newspaper in the country. >> yes. >> it was a perp walk where everyone saw you. so now you've been cleared in 2002. and nobody said, "i'm sorry" - the prosecutors, police, nobody. >> it took a few years for us to find justice. we were cleared, but there were still folks running around saying "they had to be guilty of something", you know. the facts in the case were never presented to the public in the same way that the misinformation was. you know, people remembered the muddied waters that they put out. stories like d.n.a. evidence, and yet there was no dna match. >> has your family been able to heal? >> healing, i think, is something that continues to happen over time. we all have indelible scars, you

know. >> are you angry? >> i don't necessarily thing i'm angry. i think that we begin to take back our power by articulating the problem, utilizing it so we can move forward. we have been going into schools, talking to the youngsters and looking at them as the future, and understanding that this is where the real change will come from. >> so let's switch gears a second. this michael brown case and eric garner case has really been front page - significant front-page news for the past several months. >> yes. >> give me your reaction to what you see. >> i'm - you know, i wanted to go back to say that this was going to be the criminal justice system again. but as we can see, same tactics that were used with emma til,

regarding all of these cases - you know, they told - after some time they said that the jurors made a break. they broke for soda pop because they didn't want to come back too soon with a not guilty verdict. with the other cases around the country, they are not even going to trial. you have video evidence of clear misconduct. you have people standing around who were supposed to be there to protect and serve, and they are not doing anything to mitigate the situation. >> do you draw a line from your case and the system of justice that convicted you, wrong fully connected you, and what has happened in these police shootings of african american men? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> how do you draw that line, what does it say about the system? >> the system is flawed. the system needs to be changed. the system cannot continue in the same way that it has been going. >> how do you change it? what do you change about it?

is it the way the system looks at african-american men? >> absolutely. the worst think about it is that i was one of the only one that is did make a written or video tape confession, but because of my height, because of my poise, they started pinning me as the ringleader for the central park jogger case, saying "this guy is the one who made this whole thing up", meaning he gathered all the people together and went out to do this malicious act. when you look at the facts in the case, the only fact was that i was a tall man or tall boy, rather, that was dark skinned. maybe the dashst of all. you know, and that's the part that's hard to swallow, understanding the race dynamics from a different perspective. we can't wash this off. you know, i don't necessarily have to wear suits and ties when i go to work. i make it a practice, because i want to make sure that when i'm

addressed by others, i'm addressed properly. >> this was in 2009 when you were convicted. it's 2014. >> yes. >> we would have hoped that something would have changed since then. >> hope 1989, 2014 - same thing, different day. you know, that's the part that is hard to swallow. i'm glad that people are choosing now to stand up. i'm happy that they are doing it in a more peaceful manner, you know. these things can't go unchecked. these things need to be addressed, and there has to be a change. and if the system doesn't want to change it on the local level. there has to be federal legislation to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> good to see you again. thanks have been a programming note. tomorrow we go inside the world of computer hacking, talking to

a criminal hacker, and his involvement in anonymous and how he used the internet to promote social justice. it airs tomorrow eastern. next - following the money - how much money the c.i.a.'s programme cost the country. and uber backlash. cities around the globe crack down on the taxi service.

this is al jazeera america, i'm john seigenthaler. coming up, the torture report. we know what it says. how much money did the government spend on the c.i.a. programme. uber bash lash, the start up kicked to the kerb in cities around the globe. foul play - big changes to the n.f.l.'s player code of conduct. one of the most disturbing parts of the report on c.i.a. torture tactics is how much money the spy agency spent to detain terrorists. numbers are staggering. thomas drayton has the story. >> reporter: it was a c.i.a. wishlist costing hundreds of millions. reading through the report many amounts are blacked out.

money flowed freely. one agent remarked that his office had more money that could be spent. money went to build facilities costing more than $300 million. the report highlights a payment to the country housing a facility. a relationship that caused difficulties for the c.i.a. the c.i.a. gave millions to the country. it was reported that there was flexibility with regard to the number of detainees at the facility. among the big costs, multi-million contract, awarded to a company created by two retired u.s. air force psychiatrists, who played key roles in implementing the programme. >> in 2005 the two contractors formed a company specifically for the purpose of expanding their work with the c.i.a. the c.i.a. has paid these two contractors and their company more than $80 million. >> reporter: according to the report, the two men had never

worked as integrators and didn't have a background in terrorism, yet designed most of the methods used. the report highlights how the c.i.a. paid out there 1.1 million to cover legal expenses for the company and its employees. government investigators were told about how the c.i.a. provided millions of dollars to build and maintain secret detention sites in foreign countries, including two facilities that were never used. suspects that were detained were paid off after they were released and instructed not to speak about the experience. one prisoner receiving 14,500 euros. 18,000 u.s. at the time of his release. one person associated with the c.i.a. programme told government investigators that payments of more than a million remained without any paperwork in cash and out of boxes containing $100

adding: >> according to the 6,000 page report, it was wide open, there were employee rewards and a c.i.a. officer received a cash reward of $2500 for simply doing a good job thomas drayton reporting. reaction to the report is largely focussed on the physical abuses. in many ways the psychological tactics were as brutal. science and technology correspondent jake ward explains. >> once upon a time and in some places today torture was a matter of inflicting pain. in a modern era, a pseudoscenes talked about psychological pain - sleep depravation, mock execution, threats to family members. the techniques have the advantage - for the torturers - leaving little or no physical

trace on the body, depriving victims and international courts of crucial evidence. the thing to understand is that the researchers who looked at the distinction between physical and psychological torture found that in the end the effect on the victim is the same. as the u.n. special rappa tur on torture puts it, whether it's the body or the mind, whether the victim is held in a state of terrible anxiety, a common effect is the disintegration of personality, the point of torture in an interrogation set is to regress the victim to a place where he or she losses all sorts of control of freedom of intimacy and can do nothing but comply. the agency engaged in both categories, physical and psychological. it employs psychologists to help

refine interrogation techniques. it's unimaginable. trained psychologists. they probably knew the long-term effects on the victims. here is a final added piece of horror. the intelligence community employs an advisory group, the intelligence advisory board, and in 2006 it put together a report on interrogation and coercion. it found none of the interrogation techniques used by u.s. personnel have been subjected to scientific or systematic inquiry or evaluation. and argues that threatening to use the bucket to induce the sensation of drowning through the rag or doing it to someone has no proven ability to get truthful information out of someone. whether it's justified if it's effective - let's put it aside. here is what we know - u.s. personnel knew how harmful torture could be on victims and is it it anyway.

and ignored what science nose. there's no proven ability for torture to get useful information out of anyone whatsoever. >> jake ward reporting. an author, essayist and journalist and reported on big events in the last 50 years. i talked about the new senate report and asked why it took years for the information to be revealed. he blamed a generation of post 9/11 journalists, and the u.s. government that kept them from following the story. >> because they have managed to keep - not calling it censorship, that's what it is, controlling the news. they do it and get away with it in other parts of the country - iraq or afghanistan. pakistan, syria. anywhere. anywhere that foreign reporting - word is done now with great caution. not any reporter wants to be identified with a lack of sensitivity or patriotism.

>> you can catch the interview on friday when he shares his views on the changing fizz of american journalism a trillion dollar showdown in washington could end tomorrow, and that's the deadline for keeping the government funded. at the center of the debate billions in spending. jamie mcintyre reports from washington. >> when it comes from the budget the pentagon has two complaints. it doesn't give it enough money for the things it wants and forces it to spend too much money on things it really doesn't need. >> air force pilots love the low slow a 10 ground attack jet for its comeback survivability. the air force hates it for its fiscal survivability. the cold-war relic survived every attempt by the pentagon to kill it. it has powerful backers, especially from the state where many of the 40-year-old a 10s

are based. >> the air force spent most of this year fighting congress to retire the a 10. why they weren't focussed on other important issues, i don't know. >> reporter: the air force argued the $4 billion cost in keeping the a 10s is important, but it's a fraction of pentagon spending. >> the advocacy group compiled a list of dubious projects and unwanted weapons in a pig book. among them upgrading the m1 abrahams tank, $60 million for alternative energy research, and biofuel costing $400 a gallon. and $24 million for the star base youth programme, teaching science, technology and maths to at risk use. it's penies come paired to $350

billion spent on nuclear weapons. to maintain 100 times the destructive capability of world war ii atom bombs. dianne fienstein zeroed in on the high price of nukes in an opinion piece in "the washington post", arguing the level of spending is unnecessary and unsustainable and unilaterally reducing the arsenal could save hundreds of millions. what is bugging the pentagon is it can't take some of the money for things it doesn't want and spend it on things it wants. that's because the sequestration rules bars what the pentagon things are commonsense tradeoff. >> sequestration would render it impossible to execute the defense strategy that president obama signed out in 2012. >> reporter: if you are looking at whether congress is forcing congress to waste billions, look

no further than the fact that one in five unneeded military bases, according to a decade-old study. the pentagon is barred from closing bases because they are in someone's congressional district jamie mcintyre, thank you it's been a tough week for uber, the popular car service, banned in several countries, and more big american cities are fighting the service. jonathan betz is here with more. >> an uphill climbs, first concerns it was running an illegal taxi operation, and now scrutiny to whether the service is safe. >> reporter: more speed bumps for uber, now for loss are and san francisco. both sued the company, accusing it of false advertising and fraud. >> the company repeats misleading statements giving false sense of securities. >> this as spain and netherlands, this week banned

the service allowing users to order rides via smart phones apps instead of waiting for cabs. >> the court confirmed uber is working outside the law. >> reporter: after months of protest from taxi drives, a concern is safety. regulators question the thoroughness of background checks since critics say every drive is not finger printed. >> you can't ride in there. blindly believing that you are protected. clearly you are not. >> the company offers the safest rides on the roads and conducts millions of background checks on its drivers. >> in the californian case it says: yet this week india banned the service in its capital after a rider accused a driver of rape, troubling many in a place where some women are targetted on transportation. >> physically, mentally it affects me.

>> reporter: since launching in 2009 uber expanded at break net speed. it is worth billions and is available in more than 200 cities. uber is running into angry protests by taxi drivers in many cities, accused of price gouging and threatening journalists. even so, uber is wildly popular. defenders welcomed the competition, saying it's cheaper and easier than cabs. in places where uber has been banned, the company will appeal the ruling, giving no sign of slowing down. uber's competitors like lift is also under scrutiny. they push back more. >> interesting. thank you. attorney areva martin joins us from l axe. what do you think u.s. lawmakers want from uber?

>> i think they are not certain. the law is influx. you have a company claiming it's a ride-sharing company versus a transportation company. you are getting taxi drivers and traditional companies saying "it's not fair, we are regulated, they are not." states around the country is having to grapple with the appropriate regulations for the ride-sharing company. >> we heard the storey from india and chicago, cases of rapes that occurred by uber drivers. is the company liable in this case? >> again, the laws are influx as it relates to potential liability. they claim when you sign up for uber, when you quit the app, you are waving your rights, that you acknowledge that you are assuming the risk associated with riding with that driver. and that you assume the risk for anything dangerous that happens in that car. now, you know, some smart lawyers are saying no way, that

is iron clad and it's not enough to relieve the company from liability. uber says drivers are independent contractors, not employees, and it shields them from a great deal of liability. and they have been fighting the lawsuits aggressively. they've taken the position that they are not responsible for the actions of dressers. >> how does uber fight not only what is going on in the u.s., but the bans in parts of india, spain and thailand. >> they are being aggressive. they have hired some of the u.s.'s top lobbyists, not just lawyers, and they are vowing to appeal decisions in countries that banned them, and to fight it in the court system. as we heard and read about, they are incredibly, you know, popular advocates, they are pushing back against the district attorneys.

saying we value the services and they should not be regulated. there's a war of public opinion, as well as the court battles going on. >> you have customers who rate uber drivers, and uber drivers who rate if customers, and there's concern - privacy concerns. how does uber deal with that. is that information - is that private information? could that be revealed about the customers? >> unfortunately, you know, there's no comprehensive set of laws in the united states that prohibit sharing of the kind of information that uber is collecting on, as well as a lot of these internet companies. we don't know - we are not paying close attention when we sign up for a lot of these apps that we are giving them the authority to share information. ethical companies will disclose what their information sharing policies are, and what their privacy policies are. many people do not take the time

to read the fine print or the disclosure statements. we'll see a lot of changes, rulings from the federal courts on what information can be shared by companies like uber, and what rights individuals have when they download the apps and agree to participate in the ride-sharing type, you know, situations like uber. >> in the meantime passengers better be good passengers. >> they better be careful. some of the drivers is not safe, is what we are seeing by some of these lawsuits. >> areva martin, good to see you n.f.l. owners approved a tougher personal conduct policy. it comes after high-profile cases of player violence. michael eaves has that story. >> after admitting his mistakes in handling the ray rice domestic violence incident. n.f.l. roger goodell promised proves to the policy, after consulting with outside experts

he revealed a revised and strengthened policy approved by all 32 league owners. they'll implement a process by hiring a disciplinary officer, overseeing investigations and decide subsequent punishmentsment appeals will be -- punishments. appeals will be heard by the commissioner. there'll be 6 weeks suspension for assaults, child abuse. while there were off field incidents, most notably ray rice and adrian peterson. league policy applies to everyone - players, coaches and owners, including indiana coach opener arrested for driving whilst intoxicated caused by prescription pain pills. >> the policy is comprehensive. it is strong. it is tough. and it is better for everyone associated with the n.f.l. being part of the n.f.l. is a

privilege. it is not a right. measures adopted today uphold that principle. >> well, all 32 team owners indoors the changes. the n.f.l. players' association says it didn't have input into the revamped policy. any alteration should be collectively bargained. the biggest concern is roger goodell having final say over the appeals process. the opener addressed that issue. >> we gave that a lot of thought. the reason is that is the one person that understands what is important long-term interests of the game. owners can have specific interests, players can. it's short term. the commissioner is looking for the long-term best interests of the game, and it's what separates us. >> the openers considered using an independent arbitrator in the future, but anyone outside the

n.f.l. could water down the league's best interest still ahead - a pretty picture is worth a pretty penny. it's the most expensive photo ever sold. yes, it is. is it really worth $6 million?

we are continuing to see heavy rain across much of the west tomorrow, all the way from washington to idaho. winds will be a problem inned nevada. we are dealing with wind across the east. this is the radar. you can see the snow. it's heavy out here towards the western new york. in some places in western new york we saw about 18 inches of snow, and here in new york we

saw flurries as well. the airports were seeing a lot of delays. out to the east there was more rain along the eastern seaboard, as we go for the next couple of days, the snow will continue cross the north-east, the northern tier states. we'll see the rain start to ease up across the south. that means better whether if you are going to be flying. we don't expect to see the delays that we saw today. for new york, we see a mix of rain in the morning, temperatures dipping to 31 degrees. as we go to the weekend, things will get better, temperatures warming up and on sunday temperatures 34 degrees. for boston, temperatures warmer. they'll rise as well, going down to the freezing temperatures as we go towards the weekend. that's a look at the weather. more news after this.

it's said that a pictures is worth a thousands words. this one may leave you speechless. it's called "phantom", captured by a photographer peter lick. it sold to a private collector for $6.5 million. most expensive photograph. shows rays of lights breathing through the arches of antelope canyon. it is breath-taking but is it art and is it worth all the money. kenneth is an art critic for the san francisco chronicle. maybe you could explain to us where this is worth so much

money? >> the explains is not a statistics, it's marketing, not an art phenomenon. more than a century ago john sloane said people buy pictures to prove they have money. that is more true than ever. this is an excellent case in point. i mean, there's nothing exceptional about this photograph, from what i'm able to see on reproduction. there are many questions - such as is it a unique print and what about the negative if it exists. is it a digital photograph, or is it an optical photograph printed in the dark room. and if you look on peter lick's website, you'll see a colour image of this same picture titled differently in an addition of 950. that's a very large addition even for a popular photograph. so there are many questions about the photograph that did

sell, and - but there is no artistic or critical justification for that price. >> it's fascinating. let's talk about photographs that have sold for a lot of money. $0.99 2 by andreas gersky - $3.3 million. i happen to like the photograph, but what is a value? >> well, the price is $3.3 million. the value is subject to argument from people like me. and, i mean, it's a fascinating picture. first of all, it's very large, you can't tell from a reproduction, but it's a very wide image, wide photograph. at the time this was made the artist was producing the largest photos. this has been digitry retuned. you can't tell na from a reproduction -- tell that from a reproduction or from the print

itself. it has been enhanced in some way to enhance the point that we are living in a land of excess. the auction price for the photograph makes the same point in a different way. >> and we have one more, "the pond moon light", by edward styken. $2.9 billion. >> i'll take it. >> a bargain. >> well, at least a case can be made for the historic importance of the sfof, it is nod easy to make for gersky or peter lick. >> do i get the impression you ping thing all the photographs are overvalued. >> well, there's no relationship, i have to tell you between artistic value and the art economy. it's strictly arbitrary. as some famously said, a work of earth is worth whatever someone will pay for it. >> is that photos, or photos and

paintings? >> well, both, really. well, the photo market has been surging for the past 30 years or so, and it may be that the collector who bought this, peter lick's photograph, sees himself getting in at the bottom of something, even at $6.5 million. >> i have one minute. i want to show the billy the kid photo. they say it's worth $2.3 million. >> i don't like the way we are using the word worth, john, because it's debatable what it's worth. a case can be made for the photograph based on its historical uniqueness and it's deglamorizing effect on the legend. >> thank you for talking with us. thank you for sharing your expertise, even if you don't feel the photos are that great - they are interesting and worth a lot of money. >> well, to some people.

>> thank you. now for our picture of the day. he introduced himself as the big elf, president obama delivers gifts for toys for tots, all donated by his staff. that's where we leave you tonight. i'm john seigenthaler, that's our programme. see you back here tomorrow night. "america tonight" is coming up next. take care.

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